/*
**  Galapix - an image viewer for large image collections
**  Copyright (C) 2008 Ingo Ruhnke <grumbel@gmx.de>
**
**  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
**  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
**  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
**  (at your option) any later version.
**
**  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
**  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
**  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
**  GNU General Public License for more details.
**
**  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
**  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/

#ifndef HEADER_GALAPIX_JOB_THREAD_HPP
#define HEADER_GALAPIX_JOB_THREAD_HPP

#include <boost/thread.hpp>
#include <boost/scoped_ptr.hpp>

class Thread
{
private:
  boost::scoped_ptr<boost::thread> m_thread;

  void run_wrap();

public:
  Thread();
  virtual ~Thread();

  /** Launch the run() function in a seperate Thread */
  virtual void start_thread();

  virtual void join_thread();

  /** Set conditions so that the run() function can terminate, joining is done in the destructor, not here */
  virtual void stop_thread() =0;
  
  virtual void run() =0;

private:
  Thread (const Thread&);
  Thread& operator= (const Thread&);
};

#endif

/* EOF */
